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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival
material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available
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Chiefly items relating to the buying and selling of land in Edgecombe County, N.C.
Some of the items are directly related to members of the Toole family, but others
appear to have been collected by family members, who were perhaps attempting to gather
evidence to be used in property disputes. Included are materials documenting ownership
of land by members of the Bellamy, Blount, Braswell, Cotten, and Nash families, among
others. Also included are a few bills, receipts, wills, and legal documents relating
to court actions, chiefly property disputes. During the 1840s and 1850s, there are
a small number of slave bills of sale.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Toole Family Papers #4252, Southern Historical Collection,
The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Pembroke Nash of Tarboro, N.C., in 1948 and Jacquelin Pembroke Nash
of Tarboro, N.C. in 1980.

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State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
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Among the members of the Toole family of Edgecombe County, N.C., were Laurence Toole
(1708-1761) and his wife, Sabra Irwin Toole (1719-1789), of Shiloh Plantation, which
was located about three miles up the Tar River from Tarboro. Their son Henry Irwin
Toole (1750-1790) married Elizabeth Haywood, with whom he had daughters: Mary (1787-1958),
who married Theophilus Parker (1775-1849) of Tarboro; and Arabella (1783-1860), who
married James West Clark (1779-1843).

Mary and Theophilus Parker's daughter was Elizabeth Toole (1820-1895), who married
the Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire and had Annie Gray Cheshire, who married S. S.
Nash. Catherine Caroline was also a daughter of Theophilus and Mary; she married the
Reverend Robert Brent Drane (1797 [or 1800]-1862).

Arabella and James West Clark's daughter was Mary Sumner, who married Geroge Thomas
and had Jordan Sumner.

Chiefly items relating to the buying and selling of land in Edgecombe County, N.C.
Some of the items are directly related to members of the Toole family, but others
appear to have been collected by family members, who were perhaps attempting to gather
evidence to be used in property disputes. Included are materials documenting ownership
of land by members of the Bellamy, Blount, Braswell, Cotten, and Nash families, among
others. Also included are a few bills, receipts, wills, and legal documents relating
to court actions, chiefly property disputes. During the 1840s and 1850s, there are
a small number of slave bills of sale.

Processing Information

Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, March 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010

Materials received in 1948 were orginally accessioned as Edgecombe County Miscellaneous
Papers (#1504). These materials were transferred to the Toole Family Papers in 1980,
after it was established that they had originally been owned by family members.